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The Florists' Rtview 



June 26, 1913. 



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The Sioux City Seed & Nursery Co., 

 of Sioux City, la., was awarded 6 cents 

 by the court at Alpena, Mieh., in its case 

 against the Detroit & Mackinac railway. 

 The company sued for $10,000 damage 

 done to its property by the closing of 

 Saginaw street when the railroad built 

 its new depot. 



The paragraph covering seeds in the 

 sew tariff bill as it has been agreed to 

 by the Senate committee on finance will 

 be found on page 1(5 . The principal 

 change is that seeds not specially pro- 

 vided for are to pay 5 cents per pound, 

 instead of ten per cent ad valorem as 

 in the House bill, thus adhering through- 

 otit to the principle of specific duties. 

 Peas are reduced to 10 cents per bushel. 



THE BULB CSOPS. 



Louis Berger, manager of the Phila- 

 delphia office of Gt. van Waveren & 

 Kmijff, Sassenheim, Holland, reports 

 having received the following advices 

 from the hiwie . vAtu vsaAer jdste tif 

 May 19: 



""We wish to give yea the ^emtnl - 

 conditions of ^the bnlb crops, up tmtil 

 the present itete, vkteh ia jm folhi w B : ^ 



"The crop -of white Bofinan iiya- 

 einths is expected to be faokd; conse- 

 quently pr iee» mra -nnintng vp Jaaljf nor 

 can we accept orders for large quan- 

 tities. 



"As to Dutch hyacinths, the bulbs 

 will be small. The weather was unfa- 

 vorable and made them die early. The 

 fields do not look in the same condition 

 as they did the same time last year. 

 Prices will be a trifle higher, especially 

 on blue varieties. 



"By the crops that were planted last 

 fall it was the general opiqion of the 

 Dutch bulb growers that prices of tulips 

 this year would run low, but owing to 

 the prospects of the crop at the pres- 

 ent time being not at all favorable it 

 seems that the demand will surpass by 

 far the quantity which will be offered 

 on the market this coming fall. 



"Golden Spur and Double Von Sion 

 narcissi will be higher in price, but all 

 other varieties we expect to be the same 

 as last year." 



FIEE AT DUNKIRK. 



The building of the Lake Shore Seed 

 Co., in East Second street, Dunkirk, N. 

 Y., with its contents, was destroyed by 

 fire June 18. The loss is at least $100,- 

 000 and may ?jin as high as $150,000. 

 The loss is largely covered by insurance. 

 The fire started in the cellar. It was 

 evidently caused by an explosion, as im- 

 mediately following a sharp report, 

 smoke, quickly followed by flames, came 

 belching from the outside cellar win- 

 dows and up the stairways leading to 

 the first floor. There were twenty girls 

 and six or eight men at work in the 

 building, all on the first floor. The girls 

 were panic-stricken for a moment, but 

 Majiager J. H. F. Kauffman soon qui- 

 eted them and got them all out of the 



building. The building was heavily 

 stocked with seed, drugs, cough medi- 

 cines, boxes and paper packages. The 

 value of the paper packages alone was 

 about $lY,000, while the other stock was 

 valued at $60,000 or more. Everything 

 was destroyed. The machinery, which 

 was valuable, is probably ruined. The 

 head of the cmupaay, R. W. Wright, 

 was at the time on the ocean en route 

 for home from a European tour. 



SEED TRADE CONVENTION. 



In Session at Cleveland. 



The American Seed Trade Association 

 is holding its thirty-first annual conven- 

 tion this week at the Hotel Statler, 

 Cleveland, O. As last year, the sessions 

 are executive, but, while press represen- 

 tatives are not admitted, there are 

 plenty of avenues to second-hand in- 

 formation. 



The hotel began filling up with seeds- 

 men Monday morning for the ^rass 

 Timnt'niin ihry ■hrnd of 

 ' hadjr, Jand mt^tim^mar of ^he 

 t^mauisg m tm uvn ther* mam mfaont the 

 BBUal ahawiltg^n f Tm»mfa nrT-rTlll iriwrnwiTi. 

 "PMswnt. Tia.-gnBa seed. deaiaB, as 

 uanal^ i^^tear to be tiie dnminating £ac- 

 toTy :mM3tty M Hie iMuIiag garden seed 

 houses not being repvestated. 



The opening session was ttddresBed by 

 Mayor Baker, who talked street rail- 

 way. The later hours were given over 

 to routine matters. President Charles 

 N. Page delivered the annual address 

 from the chair and appointed the usual 

 convention committees, such as those 

 on obituary and auditing. 



The Membership. 



Secretary C. E. Kendel reports that 

 the following is the showing of mem- 

 bership of the American Seed Trade 

 Association: 



Total memborsliip reported last voar 108 



New members added at last meeting '. 15 



Total "Tsii 



Lost by reBlRnatlon and failure " 



Dropped from the rolls ' 5 



Total 



Present total membership, including two 



hoBoNiry jyr, 



Net gain !!.!!. 8 



Financial Strength. 



The financial strength of the Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association is shown by 

 the following statement for the year 

 closing June 21, 1913, by Treasurer 

 Kendel: 



RECEIPTS. 



Membership dues for year $2,2riO.OO 



Initiation fees 425!no 



Intersst at banlt 43!2fl 



Sale of codes and disclaimers 13.72 



Badges for two years 



Stationery, stamps and Incidentals. 



86.37 

 44.68 



Total for year $2,484.98 



Balance in banlis 1,282.77 



Total this year 



Balance from last year. 



.$2,7.32.01 

 . 1,035.74 



Grand total $3,767.75 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Initiation fees refunded $ 7.">.00 



Secretary'% salary .3.V).()0 



Counsel's retainer 1,200.00 



Stenographer's services 125.00 



National Council of Horticulture 50.00 



Wholesale Seedsmen's league 25.00 



CouBnel's and executive committee's ex- 

 penses "^ 250.93 



Prlntlag. ioclading annual report 278.00 



Grand total $3,767.75 



Committee Beports. 



The order of business after the re- 

 ports of officers is the reports of stand- 

 ing committees. These committees, 

 with the chairmen, are as follows: 



Delegates to National Board of Trade — Albert 

 McCulIougb, Cincinnati, chairman.* 



Seed legislation — Charles D. Boyles, Chicago, 

 chairman. 



Postal laws — W. Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia, 

 chairman. 



Customs and tarlflT — J. C. Vaugban, chairman, 

 (absent in Europe). 



Transportation — D. I. Busbnell, St. Louis, 

 chairman. 



Experiment stations — Alfred J. Brown, Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., chairman. 



Cost and overhead expense— L. B. McCansland, 

 Wichita, Kan., chairman. 



The Parcel Post. 



The discussion in the lobby early 

 showed that the subject of largest gen- 

 eral interest is the parcel post. There 

 ia so agreement. Some want seeds and 

 plwntii to take the present zone rates, 

 the aame as other merchandise, a few 

 ^«mnt the existing arrangement contin- 

 -vod^'while the majority, perhaps, want 

 .jcaae other scheme adopted. There «p- 

 -peazB to be every prospect that the 

 trade can get in under the present sys- 

 'ton rany time it wants to, as it was 

 «dy because of the determined xrpposi- 

 "tiaa vf ita msmraittee headed by W. 

 ^iktiae Snrpee thnt seetiB snd- plante were 

 left as at present when the law was 

 passed, but that the trade can get any- 

 thing different seems doubtful. It will 

 take a good deal of threshing out to 

 get the convention on record by any- 

 thing like unanimous vote. It was the 

 special subject for Wednesday's session. 



Seed Laws. 



The subject of seed legislation was 

 brought up by the address of George 

 S. Green at Tuesday's session. The 

 question he was called on to answer 

 was "Are Standards of Purity Practic- 

 able in State Seed Laws f" He summed 

 it up by saying they are not, because of 

 the ever changing quality of seeds. The 

 discussion made it apparent that the 

 trade is getting around to the point 

 where a federal seed law on right lines 

 will be welcomed if it takes the place 

 of the multitudinous and divergent 

 state laws, the compliance with which 

 is becoming an ever more difficult mat- 

 ter. It must soon come to the point 

 where a national law must supplant the 

 state laws or a means must be found to 

 get the state laws made uniform. It is 

 the same problem that confronts the 

 nursery trade on inspection matters, and 

 the railroads on rate control. 



Papers and Disoussions. 



Secretary Kendel announced the fol- 

 lowing addresses and discussions as the 

 prearranged program: 



"Are Standards of Purity Practicable in State 

 Seed Laws?" by George S. Green, pcMident of 

 the Illinois Seed Co.. Chicago. 



"Seeds Grown Under Irrigation." « 4lM>Mion, 

 led by J. C. Robinson, presiden^^ *k» J. C. 

 Robinson Seed Co., Waterloo, Neb. 



